Ted Cruz: GOP will take back the Senate

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz told fellow members of his party Saturday that he firmly believes the GOP will win control of the Senate in the midterm elections this fall.

“We are winning these fights over and over and over again,” Cruz said during his speech on the last day of the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. “I am convinced we are going to retake the United States Senate in 2014.”

“What we did collectively last summer and last fall is we elevated the national debate all over this country about the disaster that is Obamacare,” Cruz said during his nearly 30-minute speech. The federal standoff, which came in the wake of Cruz’s filibuster of the new health care law, cost the U.S. economy $24 billion.

“We have a message that is stuck in what the party used to be … the party of business,” Santorum said Saturday. “Our message has to be a message of growth. But it can’t just be pro-growth, it has to be pro-growth and pro-worker.”

“We can’t win by dividing. We have to win by uniting. And we have to have a message of unity that includes all of America and recognizes that America isn’t just about creating business and grabbing the brass ring,” Santorum added Saturday.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, and “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson all spoke at the three-day event, which kicked off on Thursday.